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we have a healthcare cost problem. explain please, healthcare geek. >> this is one of the things people should really pay attention to because the healthcare crisis in this country gets so complicate and convoluted that people tune it out and then the republicans have this incredible opportunity to swoop in and make stuff up. we don't have a medicare problem. we have a healthcare cost problem. there is no competition in the healthcare market place right now. >> stephanie: right. >> okay. and people make money in the healthcare industry when prices go up. >> right. >> corporations make money when prices go up. we're talking about medical device manufacturers, drug companies, health insurance companies, they all make money the higher the prices are. they have no incentive to work for the public good. their incent sieve to make money for shareholders. higher prices in the healthcare market in general are a good thing for them. >> stephanie: right. you were pointing out we're forced -- because the baseline is fraudulently
we have a healthcare cost problem. explain please, healthcare geek. >> this is one of the things people should really pay attention to because the healthcare crisis in this country gets so complicate and convoluted that people tune it out and then the republicans have this incredible opportunity to swoop in and make stuff up. we don't have a medicare problem. we have a healthcare cost problem. there is no competition in the healthcare market place right now. >> stephanie: right....
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they said they will not switch anyone's status to part-time and offer all workers access to the same healthcare plan. >> a problem with that is those health plans are sometimes not affordable to hourly workers. sometimes those plans are too expensive for people to contribute to. and in the affordable care act there is a provision that says if the company does provide health insurance that is more than i think 9.5% of your salary, you can do the exchange. and if the worker has to go out and do the exchange because if the group happens to not be providing affordable insurance for everybody, not just its higher-paid employees, that has to contribute to the exchange as well. if garden offers a plan that is really good for a management ceo but not the hourly worker and the worker says i want to go to though exchange instead. >> stephanie: you thought of everything for that affordable care act, jacki schechner. god bless you. >> not me personally. but the idea is if you are going to push somebody out into the marketplace, why should you not contribute to that. >> stephanie: right. they have olive gar
they said they will not switch anyone's status to part-time and offer all workers access to the same healthcare plan. >> a problem with that is those health plans are sometimes not affordable to hourly workers. sometimes those plans are too expensive for people to contribute to. and in the affordable care act there is a provision that says if the company does provide health insurance that is more than i think 9.5% of your salary, you can do the exchange. and if the worker has to go out...
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these other businesses are going to the government and saying they need help with trying to provide healthcare for their workers and other things and it's kind of like, you know if you don't want to provide welfare for the lower-class people, why would you think you are entitled to making all of these profits that you are? >> stephanie: yep. thank you. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: i just love all of these regret stories. romney campaign manager regrets -- and then you just fill in. >> yeah. >> stephanie: his campaign manager matt rhodes wishes he wouldn't have taken such a hard-line right position going after immigration. yeah. we remember that. the farthest right position -- and then they are like we're flabbergasted -- >> flabbergasted! >> stephanie: and speaking of john boner. it's time to hear the christmas special again. ♪ grabbed ma got run over by john boehner, lost her medicare on christmas eve, because he said she don't deserve no health care no medicaid or social security ♪ ♪ he'd been drinking too much eggnog, and we begged him not to go, and then he put
these other businesses are going to the government and saying they need help with trying to provide healthcare for their workers and other things and it's kind of like, you know if you don't want to provide welfare for the lower-class people, why would you think you are entitled to making all of these profits that you are? >> stephanie: yep. thank you. [♪ "world news tonight" theme ♪] >> stephanie: i just love all of these regret stories. romney campaign manager...
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healthcare costs with medicare and medicaid have been projected to rise as much as 40% of gdp. we've heard this. by 2082 if not restrained, that es a fearsome prospect but based on a -- it is not impossible in the first place. that projection like others employed about i the anti-entitlement lobby to project future without changes in policy or behavior. he makes it easy to understand. this piece he says put it another way just because your son is four feet tall at age 6 doesn't mean he will be eight feet tall at age 12. anyway. this is the part where i saw this guy the head of goldman sachs. he says these questionable forecast results in the nauseating spectacle of corporate ceos such as lloyd blankfein lectures about he woulder healthcare coverage are things we can't afford. don't you love it when they say we can't afford it. what do you mean, kimosabi? the money i've paid into my whole life? >> i can't afford not to steal it from me. >> stephanie: blankfein didn't worry about what the country could afford when he pocketed $12.9 billion in taxpayer funds to cover the collapse
healthcare costs with medicare and medicaid have been projected to rise as much as 40% of gdp. we've heard this. by 2082 if not restrained, that es a fearsome prospect but based on a -- it is not impossible in the first place. that projection like others employed about i the anti-entitlement lobby to project future without changes in policy or behavior. he makes it easy to understand. this piece he says put it another way just because your son is four feet tall at age 6 doesn't mean he will be...
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. >> stephanie: look at healthcare. olson thinks it won't be 5-4. there are so many arguments here whether it is state's rights. there are so many different ways to look at that time and so many different ways the ruling could be narrow and just california. >> sure. >> stephanie: i know some people are disappointed because if they would not taken it, marriage would be legal today but i still would not have time to turn jacki schechner gay and trick her into marrying me. i'm personally happy. >> i don't think there's enough chardonnay in the world to turn -- >> stephanie: for me. >> no, for her! chardonnay and roofies. [ laughter ] >> breakfast of champions. >> stephanie: because usually to is all about me. if i had someone to be marry, i would be mad. let's give you the fun facts. i'm going to read the ones that make me feel better. >> okay. >> stephanie: is there a marriage equality dick morris? >> the paragraph that you like. >> stephanie: exactly. right. i like my -- my happy clappy. >> there has to be a dissenting view in there somewhere. >> ste
. >> stephanie: look at healthcare. olson thinks it won't be 5-4. there are so many arguments here whether it is state's rights. there are so many different ways to look at that time and so many different ways the ruling could be narrow and just california. >> sure. >> stephanie: i know some people are disappointed because if they would not taken it, marriage would be legal today but i still would not have time to turn jacki schechner gay and trick her into marrying me. i'm...